Chamber and committees

Improving Lives Through Delivering for Scotland: Amendment 5

Submitted by: Helen McDade, Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
Motion type: Amendment
Motion reference: S7M-01003.5
Current status: Due to be taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 02 September 2026

As an amendment to motion S7M-01003 in the name of Angela Constance (Improving Lives Through Delivering for Scotland), leave out from ",which commits" to end and insert "; is disappointed that the only tool that the Scottish Government is using to reform public services is centralisation; believes that the proposals to create only two health boards for the east and west further marginalises rural communities in the north and south; further believes that it is hypocritical for the Scottish Government to talk about making services local, when the proposed actions would remove locality by further centralising health services; notes that the Parliament has been told many times during the last 19 years by the SNP administration that it will empower communities, reduce NHS waiting times, support the shift of care from hospitals into communities, roll out digital innovation and expanded community services, tackle health inequalities, improve population health and treat substance misuse as a priority; believes that, over nearly two decades, the actions taken to address these priorities have been ineffective to such an extent that the current administration is still seeking agreement to take action on them; calls on the Scottish Government to set out in detail the capital and revenue budgets required to deliver healthcare reform and establishes an independent scrutiny body to oversee these reforms, and is opposed to a simple expansion of the existing governance structures, which it considers could be likened to the Scottish Government marking its own homework."